Anthony Burgess

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way ...

Fumbling for a word is everybody's birthright.

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral tr ...

The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverfl ...

If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.

Hitler was a teetotalitarian.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice m ...

When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.

Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosop ...

Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy.

We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orang ...

Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colo ...

If you want to be considered a poet, you will have to show mastery of the petrarchan sonnet form or ...

Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.